My first victory against Rathalos had me in area 5 with under a minute to go on the timer and zero meds. It was such a thrilling and adrenaline pumping fight. Rathalos from the original MH is also one of the most annoying monsters because I have never gotten a Rathalos Plate to drop after hours upon hours of farming.

LobsterMobster wrote:

Buy! Buy so you can be an ostrich who kills dinosaurs by kicking them in the face!

Me too, this isn't a story game so I don't care about blackout. I want to see everything I can so I can pick my weapon. I'm thinking greatsword, cause I see a lot of them in G rank XX, and they look fun.

I'm watching all the things. So many weapons look like fun. My main, the Hunting Horn, looks amazing. I'm also looking at the Gunlance since it looks like it got a serious upgrade as well with all the extra shots.

I want to go in fresh to the new maps and monsters, sticking to weapon stuff now as well. Maybe this is finally the time to check out gunlance or lance properly?! They always seemed so unwieldy previously.

I have to admit, the Aloy content definitely makes me want to pick this up. I'm glad they'll be dropping a demo, I haven't played a MH game (though I've played games in the MH genre), so I'm looking forward to dipping my toes in before buying.

Not to burst any bubbles, but Aloy is probably going to be exactly like all of their other partnerships: an outfit that makes you look like Aloy and a couple special weapons that fit her theme. They've done stuff like this for all the old games, like this Link outfit:

or this Sonic outfit for your cat:

The Aloy one looks a lot more detailed, but I'd be surprised if it were anything more than a skin and a couple weapons.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Aloy model makes use of the new pseudo-transmog system like the deluxe edition samurai armor. At least if that's true, you'll be able to equip whatever armor you want and not have to deal with the limited time sub-par set.

So far, yes. It's a monster that uses the Uragaan skeleton. The black on the skin is tar that it secretes, and it rolls in bones to create the armor you see on it. The armor can be broken for vulnerable spots (supposedly).

We knew we don't want to make changes that will make people who are familiar with the series pick it up and say, ’Well, they've changed the game I loved,’” he said. “We want to make the game that you love better than ever and bring more people on so it's got even more fans.